Bridget Smith
Key details
- Job title: Senior Director & Assistant General Counsel IP
- Organisation:Relativity Space
- Geography: US
- Practice Areas: Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets, Copyright
- Type: Non-Contentious
- Level:Senior-level
Profile
Bridget Smith is a senior director and assistant general counsel—intellectual property at Relativity Space. She was the company’s first in-house IP lawyer, managing patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, open-source issues and IP disputes for the rapidly growing reusable rocket company.She holds a master’s degree in engineering focused on semiconductor materials and began her career as an engineer at Motorola, where she developed software for a closed-loop process controller that delivered significant cost savings.She has worked on over 160 AIA trials, led a precedential win at the Ninth Circuit, and had her amicus work favourably cited in the Supreme Court case United States v Arthrex.She was twice named a top 50 woman in Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) trials. She co-chairs ABA-IPL’s Business & Trade Division and is the incoming chair of AIPLA’s PTAB Trial Committee. She is steering committee member for the Sedona Conference working group on patent litigation, and she is co-founder/co-chair of ChIPs Orange County.